Coral Snake?

I found a snake In my friends backyard and it sounds to be a coral snake and yes I know they are very posionus and was handled with care and caught so the dogs wouldn't eat it and is now caged until I can release it. I need to identify him ir her so that I know where a good place to relocate is so my question is

Although Coral snakes are said to not live in kansas is it possible that onegot here some how??

If so where do I let it out?

Dose anyone have a pic I can compare to??

Oh yes and he/she looks like a regular garter snake at first but then you can see bands of red across its back and it almost touchs the yellow so thats what made me think it was coral cause I read somewhere that if the red touchs yellow it is a coral.

Its not a coral snake cause the yellow and green stripes go downa nd the red go side to side so what is it ???

If it doesn't look just like Ken's first pic, its not a coral. Corals also always have a black nose, they're very small, and have smooth scales. They always have yellow, black, and red banding. Never stripes and never other colors (at least in the coral snakes in the US). If yours has the shape of a garter snake, then I think that's exactly what it is.

If it was a garter snake, it could have been a western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus proximus) or a red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis).

I think it was an article about someone phoning in to the venom unit in Florida(?) asking if the snake they found in their backyard is dangerous, the description sounded like a melanistic eastern hog due to the length, the person that found it ended up picking it up with a stick, putting it in a jar and bringing it to them and it ended up being a melanistic coral. I would think that if there are any melanistics in captivity there is bound to be lots in the wild. Also kind of goes to show you that verbal descriptions aren't always enough!